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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nIn our on-going efforts to turn the tide of the downtown police 
 state,\nGuerilla Drive-In is helping with an innovative protest in support 
 of\nhomeless rights.  The culmination of six weeks of organizing for 
 a\nfederal lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban will feature a Know 
 Your\nRights training on the Sidewalk in front of Bookshop Santa 
 Cruz,\nfollowed by songs, stories, and celebrity speakers at City Hall, 
 food\nand a Guerilla Drive-In showing.  All followed by a sleep-in and a 
 game\nof "Meet the Mayor" on Monday morning.  Come on 
 down!\n\n\n\nSanta\nCruz Guerilla Drive-In and HUFF Present\n\n\nSir!  No 
 Sir!\n\n \nFilmmaker and activist David Zeiger's documentary chronicles 
 the\nlargely forgotten anti-war activities of American GIs and other 
 members\nof the military during the Vietnam era. Powerful and surprising, 
 this\nlook back at a little-investigated chapter of history weaves 
 together\nthe stories of veterans who participated in the opposition 
 movement, an\neffort that, by the early 1970s, found widespread support 
 from\ncivilians and troops alike.\n\n\nSunday\nAug 12th, 8pm\n\nSanta Cruz 
 City Hall,\n809 Center Street\n(across from\nthe main branch of the 
 library)\nAlways Free!\n\n\n\nPLUS an\nintermission, challenging ideas of 
 public space, an\nenchanting downtown location, and great company.\n\nBRING 
 blankets, sleeping bags, pillows, friends, food\n\n& drink to share. 
 \n\nMORE INFO AND A\nRANT:  Like something out of the\nmost dystopian GDI 
 sci-fi feature, the message is loud and clear, if\nyou are not part of the 
 system, you are a criminal.  In this sleepy little liberal\ntown, sleeping 
 outside is a crime.  Anyone who falls off of\nthe treadmill of earn-and 
 spend (by accident or choice) -- anyone who\ncan't afford five, six, seven 
 hundred dollar rents in Santa Cruz --\nmight well find themselves in 
 jail.  Beyond just an issue of boring old\npoverty (yes, we should do 
 something about that, shouldn't we?), there\nis a fundamental issue at 
 stake: the basic freedom to exist on this\nplanet without taking part in 
 it's destruction.  \n\nAfter six weeks of tabling, picketing, and partying 
 outside Vice-Mayor\nRyan Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz, Coonerty remains 
 mum on the basic\nissue: The judicially-established fact that nighttime 
 sleeping bans\nviolate the federal and state Constitutional prohibitions 
 against cruel\nand unusual punishment.\n\n\nMore than 16 months ago, such a 
 ban was overturned in Los Angeles in\nSkid Row. A year ago, Richmond 
 changed its law to comport with this\nruling (the Jones decision). This 
 spring San Diego settled with its\nhomeless community, agreeing not to 
 enforce laws against sleeping and\ncamping at night.\n\nCome down and sleep 
 out with the homeless to help end the Sleeping\nBan.  Housed supporters 
 will be setting up tents and shelters for\nhomeless people on the "Mayor's 
 front lawn" to urge Mayor Reilly to\nabide by the Jones decision and stop 
 ticketing homeless people for\nsleeping and covering up with blankets at 
 night.  
 \n\nhttp://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/06/18439222.php\n\n\nSANTA CRUZ 
 GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theater under\nthe stars that springs 
 up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial\nwastelands. Beyond showing 
 great movies and bringing a broad community\ntogether, part of our mission 
 is helping reclaim public space and\ntransforming our urban environment 
 into the joyful playground it should\nbe.\n\n\nHUFF SANTA CRUZ is Santa 
 Cruz's oldest and most stubbornly\npersistent grassroots homeless advocacy 
 group. We make trouble for the\npowers that be and fight institutional 
 human rights abuses such as the\n"blanket ban": a Santa Cruz City Council 
 law prohibiting homeless\nmothers and children from covering up with a 
 blanket between the hours\nof 11 p.m. and 8:30 a.m.\n\nURBAN WASTELAND 
 LOCATION:  Center Street across from the main\nbranch of the 
 library.\n \nBREAKING NEWS, updated summer schedule, 
 discussion, \ndo-it-yourself, email list, the works: 
 www.guerilladrivein.org\n\n\n\n\n\nTo subscribe to the\nGDI announcement 
 list, email guerilla-drive-in-subscribe@lists.riseup.net\nTo unsubscribe, 
 email guerilla-drive-in-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net\nOr hell, just go 
 to\nthe website at www.guerilladrivein.org\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/08/18439533.php
SUMMARY:SIR! NO SIR! at Santa Cruz GDI
LOCATION:Santa Cruz City Hall, 809 Center Street\n(across from the main branch of 
 the library)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/08/18439533.php
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